A Reading List on Christian Nationalism

Here are some of the most significant recent works on the threat Christian Nationalism poses in the US and how to counter it. I will continue to add to this list over time. Tell me about any other works on Christian Nationalism that should be added to this list. It is a quickly growing field and I want to stay on top of it.

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Throughout 2023, I will post occasional mini-reviews of some of these works. I’d love it if you would read along and give me your thoughts.

Baker, Carolyn. Confronting Christofascism: Healing the Evangelical Wound, Apocryphile Press, 2021.

Du Mez, Kristin Kobes. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, Liveright, 2021.

Gorski, Phillip, and Samuel L. Perry. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2022.

Kruse, Kevin M., and Julian E. Zelizer, eds. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past, Basic Books, 2023.

Kruse, Kevin M. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, Basic Books, 2015

Saxton, Teresa. Pierre Bayle and the QAnon “Skeptics” (2021 blog post)

Seidel, Andrew L. The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American, Union Square & Co, 2021.

Sexton, Jared Yates. The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Dutton, 2023.

Sexton, Jared Yates. American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed its People, Dutton, 2021.

Stewart, Katherine. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Onishi, Bradley. Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next, Broadleaf Books, 2023.